New longform article on machine learning and investigative journalism

6 Dec 2021

      Hi air-l list members:

I'm writing to share my latest article for Data Journalism.com, a project
of the European Journalism Centre, on using machine learning and
investigative journalism, which may be of relevance to your work.

Bring in the machines
<https://datajournalism.com/read/longreads/machine-learning-investigative-journalism>:
AI-powered investigative journalism describes how journalists/newsrooms are
using machine learning to hold governments and big businesses accountable.
And features case studies from reporters working with Buzzfeed News, ICIJ,
Grist, The Markup, and more.

It's written for journalists, but appropriate for a general audience as
well -- students, educators, academics, media makers, and/or anyone curious
about the uptake of machine learning for investigative reporting on or with
large data sets.

I hope you will read and if you are so moved, share. Happy to
answer questions as well.

Link:
https://datajournalism.com/read/longreads/machine-learning-investigative-jou...

Best

--
Monika Sengul-Jones, PhD (she/her)
Independent writer and scholar
www.monikasjones.com

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Today's Topics:
1. TODAY! GigaNet annual symposium on IGF 0 day (Carmi, Elinor)
   2. Algorithmic Desire and the Ideology of Twenty-First Century
      Capitalism (Matthew Flisfeder) (camrievent)
   3. 2022 Fellowships at the Digital Life Initiative, Cornell Tech
      (Jessie G Taft)
   4. Call for Chapters and Inclusive Games Group
      (Kat Schrier Shaenfield)
   5. Lecturer position in Digital Media and Society at JOMEC,
      Cardiff University (Lina Dencik)
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Date: Mon, 6 Dec 2021 09:15:12 +0000
From: "Carmi, Elinor" <Elinor.Carmi@city.ac.uk>
To: "air-l@listserv.aoir.org" <air-l@listserv.aoir.org>
Subject: [Air-L] TODAY! GigaNet annual symposium on IGF 0 day
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Hello everyone,
You're invited to join GigaNet's Annual Symposium TODAY from 14.00 to
19.45 Central European Time (on Day 0 of the Internet Governance Forum).
The program is available on our website and as part of the IGF schedule
(all times indicated are in CET) ->
https://www.giga-net.org/6-december-2021-annual-giganet-symposium-program-vi...
14.00-14.05   Introduction and Welcome
14:05-15:35 - Parallel Sessions 1
PANEL 1A:  Platform Regulation
PANEL 1B: The Governance of Privacy
15:40-17:10 - Parallel Sessions 2
PANEL 2A: Digital Sovereignty
PANEL 2B: Internet Governance During the Pandemic
17:15-18:45 - Parallel Sessions 3
PANEL 3A: Internet Principles and Practices Under the Magnifying Glass
PANEL 3B: Mapping Agency and Stakeholder Dynamics
18.45-19.45  - GigaNet Business Meeting
Please join the debate on our live tweeting using the hashtag #GigaNet2021
and #IGF2021.
Looking forward to seeing you all!
Take care and best wishes,
Dr. Elinor Carmi (she/her)
Lecturer in Media and Communication,
Department of Sociology, City University.
Website: https://elinorcarmi.com/.
Twitter: @Elinor_Carmi
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Date: Mon, 6 Dec 2021 12:21:30 +0000
From: camrievent <camrievent@westminster.ac.uk>
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Subject: [Air-L] Algorithmic Desire and the Ideology of Twenty-First
        Century Capitalism (Matthew Flisfeder)
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Please join us at the CAMRI seminar Thursday this week
Algorithmic Desire and the Ideology of Twenty-First Century Capitalism
Matthew Flisfeder (University of Winnipeg)
Date: Thursday, 9 December 2021
Time: 17.00-19.00 (UK time)
Location: Online event - Zoom Meeting (please register so that we can send
you the Zoom link)
Registration:
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/algorithmic-desire-and-the-ideology-of-twenty...
Much has been written about the more deleterious dimensions of social
media websites, platforms, and apps, from Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube,
to Instagram and Snapchat, dating apps like Tinder, and more recent apps
like TikTok. We are all more than familiar with critiques of social media
corporate and government surveillance, the commodification, expropriation
and exploitation of user-provided data, the tailoring and curation of
content, and of course recent dilemmas focused on fake news tying our use
of social media to international cyberwarfare. Given all of these potential
problems, why don?t we just give up and abandon our attachment to social
media? How might we grapple with the exploitative and anti-democratic
aspects of social media set against the kinds of enjoyment that it
procures? Despite some of these problems, Matthew Flisfeder argues that
social media helps us to grasp the co-ordinates, not merely of our trouble
with machines and new media, but with the larger totalit
 y of twenty-first century capitalism. Conceiving social media as a
central metaphor for our historical present, Flisfeder proposes extending
the concept to its fullest potentials. Instead of abandoning the concept,
Flisfeder argues that the term social media helps us to render what is
problematic about contemporary neoliberal capitalism, proposing that it is
only by pursuing and failing to achieve a truly authentic social media as
our goal that we are best positioned to understand the real contradictions
of our time, as well as dominant forms of subjectivity, consciousness, and
enjoyment.
Biography
Matthew Flisfeder is an Associate Professor of Rhetoric and Communications
at The University of Winnipeg (Canada). He is the author of Algorithmic
Desire: Toward a New Structuralist Theory of Social Media (Northwestern UP
2021), Postmodern Theory and Blade Runner (Bloomsbury 2017), The Symbolic,
The Sublime, and Slavoj ?i?ek?s Theory of Film (Palgrave Macmillan 2012),
and co-editor of ?i?ek and Media Studies: A Reader (Palgrave Macmillan
2014).
Further CAMRI Seminar this term:
Thursday, 16 December 2021
Book launch: AI for Everyone? Critical Perspectives
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/book-launch-ai-for-everyone-critical-perspect...
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Date: Mon, 6 Dec 2021 16:59:17 +0000
From: Jessie G Taft <jgt43@cornell.edu>
To: "air-l@listserv.aoir.org" <air-l@listserv.aoir.org>
Subject: [Air-L] 2022 Fellowships at the Digital Life Initiative,
        Cornell Tech
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Good morning,
Cornell Tech's Digital Life Initiative (DLI) invites applications for its
2022 Fellowship class. This year, we are recruiting for two Fellowship
positions: a Technology Law and Policy Fellowship and a Postdoctoral
Research Fellowship. Working alongside and complementing an outstanding,
multidisciplinary community of DLI Postdoctoral Fellows, Doctoral Fellows,
Visitors, and Faculty, new Fellows will pursue research in, and policy
approaches to, a range of urgent topics including but not limited to
privacy and surveillance, platform governance, transparency, content
moderation, algorithmic discrimination, digital political economy,
information control and freedom, fundamental rights, digital inequality,
network regulation, and security.
Read more and apply here:
https://www.dli.tech.cornell.edu/2022-dli-fellowships
Applications will be considered beginning on January 15, 2022, until
positions are filled.
Please forward to others who may be interested, and don't hesitate to
contact us at digitallife@cornell.edu<mailto:digitallife@cornell.edu> if
you have any questions about the position.
Sincerely,
Jessie G Taft
On behalf of Helen Nissenbaum and the Digital Life Initiative
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Date: Mon, 6 Dec 2021 12:45:28 -0500
From: Kat Schrier Shaenfield <kschrier@gmail.com>
To: air-l@listserv.aoir.org
Subject: [Air-L] Call for Chapters and Inclusive Games Group
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A few reminders:
1. We have a new *Inclusive Games Network*
We are hosting our next meet-and-greet meeting on *Thursday, December 9th*
at 8 pm ET. Come join us!
We are exploring things like...
--Developing an "unconference" on inclusive games
--Creating whitepapers/open access books on inclusive games
--Connecting with each other and with organizations that are supporting
inclusion in games
--Finding collaborators for grants, research, and scholarship
--Finding collaborators for games and other projects
--Creating a cozy, inclusive, caring community
--& MORE!
Please email me if you want more details about the group and our meeting.
2. In fact... we have a new book in the works!
*50 Games to Use for Inclusion, Equity, and Justice (ETC Press)*
The call for chapters is due on *this Thursday* December the 9th!
Here is the VERY QUICK proposal form
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https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSerAZdBHHzRMAO3taMPy_qUwQ2eH4pzmPGJ...
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:
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSerAZdBHHzRMAO3taMPy_qUwQ2eH4pzmPGJ...
If you don't know which of many games to choose, just pick one and then in
the comments, provide other possibilities -- that's fine!
If you don't know any game to choose but you want to participate, that's
fine too! Just add your name and put in the games questions N/A - and then
explain in the comments that you are excited to write about any game (I can
help you choose one)!
We are specifically looking for people willing to write about:
Indie games
Non-digital games/board/card games
AR/VR games
Online multiplayer games
Popular commercial games
TTRPGs
and more!
Thanks!
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Dr. Karen (Kat) Schrier
http://www.karenschrier.com
www.twitter.com/drgamermom
Associate Professor & Director, Games & Emerging Media program, Marist
College
Game Design Consultant, World Health Organization (WHO) Academy
Author, *We the Gamers* <https://gamesforcivics.com/> (Oxford University
Press)
Author, *Knowledge Games
<https://jhupbooks.press.jhu.edu/content/knowledge-games>* (Johns Hopkins
University Press)
Editor, *Learning, Education, & Games <https://gamesforgrowing.com/>
book *series
(ETC Press/Carnegie Mellon)
Author, Designing Ourselves <https://www.adl.org/media/13011/download>
(Center
for Technology & Society)
*Please call me Kat or Dr. Kat (She/They)*
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Date: Mon, 6 Dec 2021 18:43:31 +0000
From: Lina Dencik <DencikL@cardiff.ac.uk>
To: "air-l@listserv.aoir.org" <air-l@listserv.aoir.org>
Subject: [Air-L] Lecturer position in Digital Media and Society at
        JOMEC, Cardiff University
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The School of Journalism, Media and Culture (JOMEC) at Cardiff University
is looking to hire a Lecturer (Grade 7) in Digital Media and Society.
The role involves the delivery of high-quality and research-led teaching
at both undergraduate and postgraduate level and to contribute to the
research record of the School through the commitment to carry out research
leading to the publishing of high-quality research; to pursue excellence in
research, teaching and enterprise and to inspire others to do the same; and
to advance the School?s renowned work in the field of digital media,
critical data studies, and data justice.
Deadline for applications is 09/01/2022. Further details can be found
here:
https://krb-sjobs.brassring.com/TGnewUI/Search/Home/HomeWithPreLoad?partneri...
Best,
Lina
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Professor Lina Dencik
Co-Founder Data Justice Lab
PI Data Justice: Understanding datafication in relation to social justice
(DATAJUSTICE), ERC Starting Grant 2018-2023
PI Advancing Data Justice in the Well-being of Future Generations (Wales)
Act, EPSRC Network+ Grant 2021
Co-I Towards Democratic Auditing: Civic Participation in the Scoring
Society, Open Society Foundations 2018-2021
School of Journalism, Media and Culture, Cardiff University
Two Central Square, Central Square, Cardiff CF10 1FS
Email: DencikL@cardiff.ac.uk<mailto:DencikL@cardiff.ac.uk>, Tel: +44
(0)29 208 75461
Twitter: @LinaDencik
Fellow, Center for Media, Data and Society, Central European University
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